I'm looking at my photos in my personal photo section in MySpace this morning and I noticed something very interesting in my photos when I compared them pre- and post-splitting up with Josh............................. you can see that I'm WAY happier afterwards! I'm smiling and I've always been a smiley person, but you can just see it in my eyes. I swear. Maybe it's just me, but maybe it's visible to more than just me! I know it's sad that I can say that I wasn't as happy as I could have been in my previous marriage, but it's not like I didn't try! I just had enough of getting beat down. I think I realized almost immediately after he moved out that a weight had been lifted off my shoulders. Take a look...............
Before (March 2007)
and after.....
Let's try this again........
Before
and after....
Maybe it's the fact that I'm healthier after the fact. Maybe it's that I'm taking care of myself better and therefore look better. Maybe it's that I'm just genuinely happier and that's it. Maybe I'm just crazy! I don't know. You tell me! Do you see it?
Speaking of that last picture, though..... look at all of that freakin hair! It's about high time that half of it dissapears into the land of the hairdresser's floor. Hopefully I'll have time in the coming weeks to get it done! Just so much to do with moving, wedding, and what not. GEESH!
Saturday, May 17, 2008
Reflection
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Monday, April 28, 2008
Happy Birthday Katelyn!

My little girl is growing up! She's now 3 years old! It's such a cliche phrase, but where does the time go? I just don't know!
We had a birthday party for her this weekend. We had pizza for dinner, which Katelyn helped make. She always wants to help Mommy, especially in the kitchen.
She had fun opening her presents. She was also very polite (with a little prompting from Nate and I) and said thank you to everyone for her presents.
Nate and I ended up getting her the trike for her birthday that I really wanted to get for her. She LOVES it! We took her outside to teach her how to learn to pedal. It took her all but 5 minutes to pick up how to pedal and she then started off down the street telling everyone "BYE!!!" Doesn't have her drivers license yet, and she's already trying to cruise! I'm in trouble, I just know it! LOL.

Katelyn had fun, which means it was a successful birthday! It's crazy seeing her grow up, but I will enjoy every minute of it! :)
Posted by ~*Jen*~ at 9:16 PM 4 comments
Sunday, April 20, 2008
Jaws
Katelyn's aunts and uncles (Jaylan, Jefferson, Oriahna, and Sami) have all gotten her hooked on sharks. A few weeks ago I was in Utah and the kids had Katelyn watch "Jaws" with them. Katelyn now thinks sharks are the coolest things in the world! You'd think a movie like "Jaws" would scare an almost 3-year-old. Not so much! I could hear her laughing in the other room while they watched. Since then, anytime she sees a shark (like when we went to the aquarium), she gets sooooooooo excited! It's the coolest thing for her! She also randomly will put her hands together and pretend she's a shark and try to attack me. Of course, I always win that battle, but it's the thought that counts ;).

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Thursday, April 17, 2008
I'm a slacker!
I know, I haven't posted in a while! I was doing really good and then life caught up to me! I've been very busy with things and as I elaborate here in a minute, you will understand why!
Okay, for the most pressing issue at hand and the one that most of you know about.......I AM ENGAGED! Yes, it's true. This coming from the girl who said there was no way on this planet that she would get engaged or even married so soon after getting divorced. Well, TA DA! Funny things happen when you quit fighting the Spirit and start listening. It's amazing how much easier things became! My fiance's name is Nate. We actually went to high school together, dated on and off our junior year, and were best friends our senior year. Romantically we went our separate ways during high school, but have since found each other and can't wait to get married! We ordered my ring last week and I'm hoping it gets done soon! I can't wait for it! Now that the ring thing has been conquered, we are searching for a place for me to live and eventually Nate after we get married. It's proven itself a rather daunting task! I've never spent so much time looking for a place to live. Usually I've looked at 3 or so and made a choice. I don't even know how many we've looked at and we're still in limbo with the whole thing! Nuts. Anyway, I just hope that we find the perfect place soon, so we can move onto other things, like planning a wedding! I take that back, we are planning the wedding right now, but just can't focus as much attention to it, because we need to get me moved from IF back down to Utah. *SIGH* Off beat here a little bit, but I'm not terribly thrilled to be moving back to Utah. I thought I had escaped for good! But, for love you make sacrifices and this just happens to be one of them for me. Not to mention, we hope not to end up there forever!
Next item on the agenda is my trip to Las Vegas! Back on Easter weekend, I went to Vegas with Nate, his friend Doug, and Doug's girlfriend, Anna. We spent a couple days in St. George and a couple in Vegas. This slideshow has a bunch of the pics I took during the trip.......
The highlight of the trip for me was going to see The Amazing Johnathan. For those of you who don't know who he is, look him up on YouTube and watch a couple videos. He's HILARIOUS!!! He's a comedian/magician and I've loved him ever since I knew who he was. Nate and I got tickets to go see him. It was in a very intimate club setting, so we got to sit really close to the stage. He was SOOOOO funny and I loved every minute of it. After the show, I bought his book and he autographed it for me! I also got my picture taken with him (as seen in the slideshow) and Psychic Tanya. I was literally skipped out of the club because I was so excited, with Nate as a witness. I also got to see my friend, Todd, who is currently living in Vegas. I hadn't seen him in forever! It was good to see him again and catch up since the good ol days at Snow! We also spent one of our days in St. George with Sami. She had a blast with us as we went to the Arts Festival in town. She got her face painted and she was quite happy after that. Overall it was a great vacation and something I definitely needed outside of the normal trips to SLC.
We had a one of our traditional Conference weekend camping trips to Lava Hot Springs a couple weeks ago. We packed up all the motor homes and campers, and headed off. It's a good thing we had them, because tent camping was absolutely out of the question! We still had snow on the ground all over the place! Ah yes, welcome to Idaho! The land of the freezing! LOL. We watched conference, which had some really good talks. When we weren't watching conference, we were playing in the springs! Katelyn, of course, just loved going swimming as much as we did. I'm shocked she hasn't grown any gills, actually. I really need to get her into some swimming lessons this year! She'll have a ball with them!
Katelyn's going to be turning 3 here in a week and half. Geesh. Is she seriously that old? I can't hardly believe it. She's growing up so fast. Her verbal skills are getting better and better each day. I find myself less and less just nodding and agreeing with her jibberish, because it's coming out in English more! I'm thinking I want to get her a trike for her birthday. I remember having a trike at her age, so I think it would be really fun to get one for her. :)
Okay, anything else? Well, I think that is everything in a nutshell right now. I'm sure I've missed a ton, but hopefully things will slow down a TINY bit, so I can keep up more with my updates (in my dreams, right?).
Posted by ~*Jen*~ at 10:04 PM 3 comments
Saturday, March 29, 2008
Guitar Hero

Yes, it's true! I seriously do that when I hear a song from Guitar Hero! I even start strumming with my right hand and pretend to push the buttons with my left! Nate, Gerber, and Jessica can all attest to this! I am officially a Guitar Hero addict. I suppose it's a good thing that I don't own an XBox or Wii at the current time (although I greatly desire so), but it's probably a good thing because I don't think I'd get a single thing done! I suppose I should go find myself a Guitar Hero Anonymous or something........................haha.
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Wednesday, March 12, 2008
Ouch!
Have you ever experienced one of those injuries that was so stupid in its occurrence that you were ridiculously mad that it happened? Okay, so my latest stupid injury occurred yesterday while I was in the shower. I went to grab my razor (which sits upon a small shelf in the shower just below shoulder level) and I knocked it off, so it fell by my feet. I went to pick it up and completely smashed my head on the shelf, and all it took was the motion of reaching down to smack myself up! Now I have a goose egg on my forehead and it's still painful 24 hours later! Fortunately it's not HUGE, but I'm still ticked about it. I'm just praying a bruise doesn't show up! That's all I need, a giant purple smack mark on my head when I go to Vegas! Then I'll look back at my pictures and everyone will ask "What is that on your head?" and then I'll have to give the stupid explanation that is the truth. Maybe I need to come up with a better story about what happened.....................
Posted by ~*Jen*~ at 11:49 AM 2 comments
Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Linkin Park Baby!!!
Okay, I'm sure you are all tired of hearing about me go on about Linkin Park, but bear with me because I've got more coming......LOL
I went to Linkin Park on Saturday night with my brother, Keegan, and it was AMAZING! I went and saw them 6 years ago when no one knew who the crap they were and the show was frickin awesome, but this recent show was beyond anything I could have wished to see!
Traffic and parking sucked majorly! I think from the point we hit the off ramp on the freeway to the point we actually were able to park spanned about an hour, and we only covered, distance wise, about a mile! Yeah, it blew. Although while we were stuck in traffic, we went past a car with a sign in the back passenger window with an arrow pointing to the driver that said "This guy loves men!" Keegan gave the car a thumbs up as we passed. The passengers were peeing their pants with laughter and the driver didn't have the slightest clue what was going on. Cheap entertainment! We eventually found a parking spot in a business complex (yea for free parking!!!) and sprinted to the E Center. We missed the first opening band, but we really could have cared less. In between bands, Verizon sponsored this text message thing where you could text a number and have your text show up on the big screens. My personal favorites were "Scream if you love sweet pickles!", "Mike Shinoda for president", and "CHUCK NORRIS!" Those got the best crowd reaction and were hilarious, of course.
We made it in time to see the other opening band, Coheed and Cambria, which we did want to see. I'm in love with these guys now! I'd only heard a song or two before we went and they were an incredible band to see play live. The lead guitarit's hair was absolutely unbelievable!
I don't even have to point out which guy I'm talking about! Haha! These guys were awesome and definitely got me warmed up for the guys I'd waited so LONG to see!!!!
Linkin Park opened with "What I've Done", which kind of surprised me because of how much it has been overplayed on the radio. After seeing it done live, I've completely forgiven the radio stations for overplaying it so much and my love of the song has been renewed yet again! After the first song, it just totally took off! They played a wicked combination of songs from all of their albums, of course I love them all! I screamed all of the songs and now it being 2 days later, I am still suffering from a raspy voice! I've also got the sore muscles to prove I rocked hard that night! They did 2 encores, which I loved. When they came out for their first encore, they played "In Between", which was the one song I was dying to hear that night. Woo hoo for dreams coming true! LOL. That song just makes me melt into a big pile of gooey love. That would be the girl side of me coming out. I took so many pics and vids on my cell @ the show, my phone is almost full! Here are a few......
Coheed and Cambria
Even with a dinky cell phone, you can see how he rocks out that hair!
Linkin Park was only 2 minutes from coming out. I think I was a little on the excited side.....
YEAH! LINKIN PARK! WOOOOOOOO!
Chester rocks my socks off, especially with no shirt on! *DROOL*
(This pic is now my wallpaper on my phone! Haha!)
Well, all in all, it was the most wicked cool show I've EVER been to! Now, how long until the come to town again? LOL
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